Went to contribute to the best intro thread with Stevie Wonder’s Living For The City because I remember a spoken intro that starts “New York City, just like I pictured it!” And then the unnamed narrator quickly gets arrested. But in all of my searches, there is no soundclip, youtube video or lyrics website that has this intro. A search of the phrase ‘New York City, just like I pictured it’ yields comedy routines and links to the movie New Jack City.
Was this a soundbite my local radio used to play in front of this song all the time? Am I mixing up two different memories (I do that sometimes)? Is my NYCenteredness showing? What am I remembering?